CHORUS-Publishers Propose Public-Private Partnership to Support Access to Research

From The Chronicle of Higher Education (open-access article)-June 5, 2013
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/publishers-propose-public-private-partnership-to-support-access-to-research/44005

"Called Chorus—the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States—the partnership would use publishers’ existing infrastructure to identify and provide free access to peer-reviewed articles based on publicly supported research. The proposal comes as an August deadline looms for federal agencies to comply with the new policy."

"Chorus would require little or no federal money, the document says, because it would draw on resources that are already in place or in development. It would use existing tools and services such as CrossRef, FundRef, and Orcid to make articles more easily found, searched, and archived. (CrossRef is a publisher-supported research-linking service; FundRef collects information about where money to support specific research comes from; Orcid provides persistent digital identifiers for individual researchers that help track their work.)"

Details of the May 9, 2013 Executive Order:
Under the terms of the Executive Order and a new Open Data Policy released today by the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of Management and Budget, all newly generated government data will be required to be made available in open, machine-readable formats, greatly enhancing their accessibility and usefulness, while ensuring privacy and security." 
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/05/09/landmark-steps-liberate-open-data
 
Open Data Policy
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/2013/m-13-13.pdf

Executive Order
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/09/executive-order-making-open-and-machine-readable-new-default-government-

PLOS Statement on CHORUS - 7 June 2013
plos.io/14BMTnX #2013SSP